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I’m interested in looking into making an edit for ‘Star Trek: First Contact’ & ‘Insurrection’ using some of the deleted scenes that didn’t make it to the DVDs (like the one of Quark at the end of Insurrection).
I read somewhere a ‘workprint’ of an early cut of Insurrection is out there someplace, does anybody have a clue as to where I might look to find that footage?
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From Insurrection:
A deleted scene featured Armin Shimerman as Quark, who arrives on Ba’ku aboard the USS_Ticonderoga_ to open up the planet as a vacation spot; he is dismissed by Picard and escorted back to DS9 by an irritated Worf. This scene was scripted and filmed but not included on the Special Edition DVD, although a still picture from it can be seen among the special features.
From First Contact:
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A short scene cut from the film happened on the holodeck, when a drunk named Buster grabbed for Lily Sloane’s arm and was pushed back. [28]
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In another scene, Zefram Cochrane – reluctant to make the first flight of the prototype warp ship Phoenix – was chased by officers from the USS_Enterprise_-E and became trapped at the edge of a cliff. As he was about to jump to his death (thereby committing suicide), Troi had to climb onto the cliff and try to persuade him to come back down. She eventually told him to jump, though, and even pushed him off the ledge. His descent was not fatal, however, as his fall was stopped in mid-air by a force field that Geordi La Forge had rigged up. Explained co-writer Brannon Braga, “That just got cut for time. We felt we had enough Cochrane character bits, so we just cut that out.” (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 35) “I was sorry they took that [scene] out,” said actor James Cromwell, who performed the scene at his audition for the role of Zefram Cochrane, “but we discussed it and it didn’t make sense.” Cromwell believed that, if Cochrane was suicidal, he would have had no problem with agreeing to make the initial warp flight, though his reluctance to do so (and him overcoming this hesitancy) is one of the film’s main story points. (Star Trek: Communicator issue 111, p. 71)
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In the UK theatrical version of the film there were two scenes that were cut from subsequent VHS and DVD releases; One taking place after Worf is transported over to the Enterprise-E, where he refuses medical treatment from Dr. Crusher and demands to be taken to the bridge, and an extended scene on Earth where Zefram Cochrane asks Geordi La Forge about his eyes. This appears to be the only evidence of cut material; no deleted scenes have surfaced or been officially released. [29]
